Patients ‘pinned to floor’ at Carseview Centre

Patients claim they were slapped and violently restrained at a mental health unit in a BBC documentary tonight.

People who were treated at the Carseview Centre in Dundee allege they were pinned to the floor and mocked by staff. They have also claimed that illegal drugs were widely available.

The facility, which has about 80 beds, is already being investigated after a fatal accident inquiry into the death of Dale Thomson, who took his life after being allowed to leave the unit, in 2015. The inquiry found there were “serious systemic failures in the care” he received at Carseview.

That finding led BBC Scotland to speak to 24 people treated at the centre in the past five years. Eleven claimed they had been unreasonably restrained…

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